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English

Pronunciation

• enPR: st?ng, IPA^(key): /stæ?/
• Rhymes: -æ?

Etymology 1

From Middle English stange, partly from Old Norse st?ng; partly from Old English stæng, steng, stenge (“pole, rod, bar, stake, stick”); both from Proto-Germanic *stang?, *stangiz (“bar, rod”), from Proto-Indo-European *steng?-, *steg?- (“to stick, sting, prick, be stiff”).

Noun

stang (plural stangs)

1. (Wicca, paganism) A forked ritual staff.
2. (archaic or obsolete) A long bar; a pole; a shaft; a stake.
   • 1962, Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire

     Gripping the stang, she peered / At ghostly trees. Bus stopped. Bus disappeared.

3. (archaic or obsolete) In land measure, a pole, rod, or perch.
   • 1880, Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels into several Remote Nations of the World - Part I, Chapter II (Page 15)

     These fields were intermingled with woods of half a stang,*... (with the corresponding footnote: "An old word for a perch, sixteen feet and a half. These small woods were therefore eight feet and a quarter.")

Derived terms

• stang ball
• ride the stang

Etymology 2

From Old Norse stanga (“prick, goad”).

Verb

stang (third-person singular simple present stangs, present participle stanging, simple past and past participle stanged)

1. (intransitive, Scotland) To shoot with pain, to sting.
2. (transitive, Scotland) To spear; to sting.

Etymology 3

Verb

stang

1. (dialect, rare) simple past tense of sting

Etymology 4

Noun

stang (plural stangs)

1. (slang, US) Short for "Mustang", a brand of automobile produced by the Ford Motor Company.

Anagrams

• 'ganst, Gnats, Tangs, Tsang, angst, gnast, gnat's, gnats, tangs

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse st?ng.

Noun

stang c (singular definite stangen, plural indefinite stænger)

1. bar
2. rod
3. pole
4. crossbar

Inflection

Derived terms

• stangdrukken (adjective)
• stangspring n
• stangtøj n

References

• “stang” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??

Noun

stang m (plural stangen, diminutive stangetje n)

1. bar

See also

• baar f
• blok n
• staaf f

Anagrams

• angst

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse st?ng

Noun

stang f or m (definite singular stanga or stangen, indefinite plural stenger, definite plural stengene)

1. a bar, pole, rod, lever, staff, stick, shaft
2. rod, 3.1374 metres

Derived terms

• flaggstang
• jernstang

See also

• stong (Nynorsk)

References

• “stang” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “stang_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Swedish

Verb

stang

1. past tense of stinga.

Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Old Norse st?ng, from Proto-Germanic *stang?.

Noun

stang f (definite singular stanga, dative stangen, definite plural stängren)

1. bar, rod, pole

Derived terms

• fällstang
• staang

English

Etymology 1

From Stan (“Stanley”), after the song Stan by Eminem (2000), a fictitious account of the rapper's encounter with an overly obsessive fan named Stan. Sometimes assumed to be a blend of stalker +? fan, but perhaps simply chosen for the rhyme.

Alternative forms

• Stan

Pronunciation

• (UK, North America) IPA^(key): /stæn/
• enPR: st?n
• Rhymes: -æn

Noun

stan (plural stans)

1. (slang, sometimes derogatory) An extremely obsessive fan of a person, group, character, or creative work, particularly one whose fixation is unhealthy or intrusive.
   • 2011, Vanessa Spates, "Whether in Britney's Army or Rihanna's Navy, stans need to surrender to sanity", The Lantern (Ohio State University), Volume 132, Number 16, 11 October 2011, page 9A:

     I know the in-depth detailed life of a stan because I am one. I'm one of those Lady Gaga fans, […]

   • 2013, "Selena Gomez: She Is My Queen", Sunday Tribune (South Africa), 17 March 2013:

     I am the biggest stan for Selena because she is my queen. She made Disney interesting and I have always watched her.

   • 2013, Jake Folsom, "Stans take dedication to extreme heights online, in real life", Washington Square News, Volume 41, Number 104, 5 December 2013, page 11:

     Incidents have occurred with stans showing up to pop stars' residences, as has happened with Madonna, Taylor Swift and others.

Hypernyms

• megafan, superfan, trufan, uberfan

Hyponyms

• sasaeng (K-pop fandom)

Verb

stan (third-person singular simple present stans, present participle stanning, simple past and past participle stanned)

1. (slang, transitive, intransitive) To act as a stan (for); to be an obsessive fan (of).
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:stan.

Translations

Etymology 2

Back-formation from -stan

Alternative forms

• Stan, 'Stan, 'stan, -stan, -Stan

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /st??n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /stæn/
• enPR: stän

Noun

stan (plural stans)

1. One of the stans; any of the ex-Soviet countries and their neighbours whose name ends with "-stan" such as Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan.

Further reading

• "Stan" fans on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Stan Twitter on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

Anagrams

• ASNT, NTAs, Nast, Nats, Sant, Tans, Tsan, ants, nats, tans

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from a South Slavic language, ultimately derived from Proto-Slavic *stan? (“lodging”). Compare Bulgarian ???? (stan, “camp”), Serbo-Croatian st?n (“apartment”); non-Slavic cognates include Romanian stân? and Greek ????? (stáni).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stan/

Noun

stan m (indefinite plural stane, definite singular stani, definite plural stanet)

1. shepherd's hut
2. herd of sheep or other livestock

Declension

Related terms

• tëbanë, bun

Derived terms

• stanar, stanore

References

Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *stan?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?stan]
• Rhymes: -an

Noun

stan m

1. tent

Declension

Further reading

• stan in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• stan in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Middle English

Noun

stan (plural stanes or stan)

1. Alternative form of stone

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *st?n?.

Verb

st?n

1. to stand

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• antst?n
• bist?n
• farst?n

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: stâen
  • Dutch: staan
    • Afrikaans: staan
  • Limburgish: staon

Further reading

• “st?n”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *stain, from Proto-Germanic *stainaz, from Proto-Indo-European *steyh?no-, *stih?-no- (a suffixed form of *steyh?- (“to be solid, to crowd together”)); cognate with Old Frisian st?n, Old Frisian st?n, Old Dutch stein (Dutch steen), Old High German stein (German Stein), Old Norse steinn (Danish sten, Swedish sten), Gothic ???????????????????????? (stains). The Indo-European root is also the source of Ancient Greek ????? (stîon, “pebble”), Proto-Slavic *st?n?- (Bulgarian ????? (stena), Russian ?????? (stená), Czech st?na (“wall”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st??n/

Noun

st?n m

1. stone

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

• Middle English: stan, stane, stayn, ston, stoan, stoon, stone
  • English: stone, styen (Northumbrian)
  • Scots: stane
  • Yola: sthoan

Old Saxon

Alternative forms

• standan

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *st?n?.

Verb

st?n

1. to stand

Conjugation

Descendants

• Middle Low German: st?n
  • German Low German: stahn

Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *stan?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stan/

Noun

stan m inan

1. state (of affairs), condition
2. state (political division of the United States)
3. (rare) state (sovereign polity)

Declension

Further reading

• stan in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• stan in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *stan?, from Proto-Indo-European *steh?- (“to stand, stay”), whence also st?ti (“to stand”), st?viti (“to set, place”), st?do (“herd”) and st?l (“table”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stâ?n/
• Rhymes: -â?n

Noun

st?n m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. flat, apartment
2. loom (tkàla?k? st?n)

Declension

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:stan.

Derived terms

• stàmben?
• stàn?r
  • s?stan?r
    • s?stan?rka

References

• “stan” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

Slovak

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *stan?, from Proto-Indo-European *steh?- (“to stand, stay”), whence also stá? (“to stand”), stavi? (“to set, place”), stádo (“herd”) and stôl (“table”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?stan/
• Rhymes: -an

Noun

stan m (genitive singular stanu, nominative plural stany, genitive plural stanov, declension pattern of dub)

1. tent
2. (slang) erection, hard-on

Declension

Further reading

• stan in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

Swedish

Alternative forms

• sta'n

Etymology

Contraction of staden, definite singular of stad.

Noun

stan

1. (colloquial) the town, the city

   på stan

   downtown

Usage notes

• Stockholmers insist that stan always refers to Stockholm and no other cities. The phrase inte i stan (“not in the town”) to them means outside of Stockholm, but to other Swedes it means outside of any town, i.e. in the countryside.

Anagrams

• sant